To be honest, I felt the IQ Tour Fusion was much closer to the pearl than the solid.  I bet it would be a decent replacement.

decent third choice would be the eruption pro hybrid and add some polish

one guy i know who is pretty reliable with ball reactions has compared the venom chock to a tour solid with more continuation. if the panic is the "pearl version" i guess that would make it a tour pearl with more continuation....i have never thrown any of the 3 though and havent seen much of the panic in person

If the Panic is as close as you guys seem to think (and numberwise I agree) why do you think the panic doesn't seem to be nearly as well received as the IQTP? Or is it just the few people I know who have just though it was ok but nothing special?

If the Panic is as close as you guys seem to think (and numberwise I agree) why do you think the panic doesn't seem to be nearly as well received as the IQTP? Or is it just the few people I know who have just though it was ok but nothing special?

I have had the IQT Pearl and have the Venom Shock.

While the Shock's are equivalent to the IQ Tour series, their coverstocks are not as strong, in my opinion, as the R2S on the IQT series.

My Shock is a control ball on medium-light oil patterns; my IQTP was never a control ball, even on medium oil.
If I try to use my Shock on medium oil, it quickly becomes almost a skid/flip ball, even with the 4000 grit surface (which I now refresh every league session).  Every Venom Panic I have seen even on medium-light oil is skid/flip in nature, whose backend is only softened by a speed dominant release.

Don't forget that a ball's tendency to arc or skid/flip is more governed by the bowler's release: speed dominant or rev dominant.

I would think an Arson Low-Flare (the original pearl, not the solid) would be the closest. When that ball came out it seemed like an obvious response from EBI to make a ball close to the IQ Tour Pearl.